2009 MoCCA ARTFEST!

It is once again time to pronounce the most esteemed show of art shows... The Museum Of Comic and Cartoon Art's annual show in New York this June 6th and 7th (aka the 2009 MoCCA Artfestival!) I will be in attendance again with my good friend Allen Spiegel, and this year we will be likewise accompanied by the excellent Barron Storey and David Mack too. The show is in a new venues at the Armory Building in Manhattan and you can find us all at tables 632, 633, & 634.

I'll have original artwork from Conan, Freaks of the Heartland, The 52 Weeks Project, A Pirate's Guide to First Grade, Edentown and the various cover work from the past year. I'll also be happily displaying original art and a full-color galley of my forthcoming children's book from Harper/Collins "Our Enduring Spirit" in which I illustrate President Obama's first inaugural address- which is due out on the bookstands September 29. So much to see and do at this show- seriously. It's a wonderful mix of some of the most impressive work in publishing today, and I can't wait to see what everyone else is bringing too. Make sure to stop on by and pick up the new card this year, (posted below) featuring Walt and Nate from The Woodland Chronicles and Scholastic/Graphix!


For more information about the show, special events and a full exhibitor's list, please visit their homepage by clicking here:
http://www.moccany.com/artfest09-main.html

Friday, June 5th: 4pm - 8pm
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
594 Broadway, Suite 401

Saturday, June 6th: 8:30am
69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Avenue

Hope to see you there!

MICROVISIONS 4!

Once again the excellent and noble Irene Gallo and Dan Dos Santos have organized this year's MICROVISIONS 4 show and auction to support the Cociety of Illustrator's Scholarship Fund. The show of the original work is up now at the Society for those of you trapsing about the New York region. The 5x7" original paintings will all be auctioned off starting this saturday evening on the Ebay to provide funding for art students to pursue their endeavors- always a good thing indeed. Last year, Microvisions 3 raised over $4,500.00. Let's see if we can't beat that this year.

I am honored to been asked to participate this year along with the extremely talented following artistes- Welsey Allsbrook, Volkan Baga, Chris Buzelli, Justin Gerard, Luis Royo, Greg Manchess, Paolo Rivera, Francis Vallejo and Michael Whelan.

You can see a larger shot of the wall of glory by clicking here: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y141/igallo/MicroVisionsEx.jpg

The Auction will start Saturday at 8:30pm and will run for seven days only, ending the following saturday. Interested parties can follow this link here to view the whole selection:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsocietyillustratorsQQhtZ-1



Get thee bidding people and help a youngling find his way in this cold cruel world!

OBAMA'S INAUGURAL ILLUSTRATED!

Brenda Bowen and I through HarperCollins/The Bowen Press will be putting together a children's picture book based on the inaugural speech of our 44th president. The idea is to adapt the speech so that we can get second and third graders to better make sense about what the speech promised, and what it all means- we'll include a full transcript of the speech in the rear of the book along with a listing of moments in the first 100 days as well. The idea is to create something that looks beyond celebrating his biography and makes a lasting document of this remarkable time.

The book is due on the shelves October 2009.

Publisher's Weekly just did a quick announcement of the project- VERY exciting stuff. Check it out:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6631511.html?nid=2788

NEW INTERVIEW UP AT TOR.COM!

The most esteemed Irene Gallo has just recently posted an interview we did over at TOR.COM's new website. New questions, answers and bloviating as always from yours truly... as well as some thoughts on the upcoming Freaks of the Heartland movie adaptation. They've posted art to see and even a video to watch- (love that rocketship logo of theirs) check it out:

http://www.tor.com/index.php/creators/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=7241

FREAKS OF THE HEARTLAND... The Movie!

It's true! It seems that Overture Films has taken on Steve's and my midwestern gothic horror, and decided to turn it into a picture film. David Gordon Green will diregct it, which pleases us both quite a bit. Be prepared for something a little different than your typical comics-to-movies effort here. I'll be sure to keep everyone posted as news unfolds and I am made aware of it. For now, however you may behold the actual scoop from the Hollywood Reporter by using the link below:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/
news/e3i9e2284979c0b8c78d778cf353fdf9c6f


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SPECTRA PULSE #2

The newest issue of SPECTRA PULSE is out and low and behold, it's got a cover by yours truly. A bit of a departure for me in many ways, but tremendous fun all around. Go get thee a copy! It's a great magazine with excellent interviews!

You can visit their website by following this here url:
http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/spectra/

and their facebook page by doing likewise:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5674967431

THE 52 WEEKS PROJECT CONTINUES!

This week marks the second installment of the well received 52 Weeks Project, posted up now at the Storefront section of our fair website. This little experiment has gotten a tremendous response- thanks to everyone for their support. To view the newest installment, please follow the url below:


http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14587682


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PANDEMONIUM and the 52 WEEKS PROJECT

Just a head supt o let you know that Daryl Gregory's excellent breakout novel, Pandemonium (Random House/Del Rey) is due out on the shelves this week. While I can claim having done the cover for this marvelous tome, it is the work inside that's garnering those rave reviews. Make sure to check it out- and glean more info and news on it by visiting the link to Daryl's site below:

http://www.darylgregory.com/


Also on the decks this week is the launch of my latest experiment to wrest what was once play back from the clutches of work, THE 52 WEEKS PROJECT! Each Monday will see a new drawing of the same size and proportions, but wildly varying subject matter posted come hell or high water on the STOREFRONT section of this fine website. So stay tuned to this station for further additions to what is promising to be a very fun line of work. Er,,, I mean play. The first volley in this game is already up-

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5559977§ion_id=5582258



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WEBSITE UPDATES: NEW STOREFRONT! and CONAN

Hey Everyone-

Well finally after long broken promises, pressurings and cajolings, the official, perhaps even Etsyish, storefront to end all gregthings storefronts! It's true- if you haven't already noticed the ironic bag of bananas-hanging-from-a-banana-tree shtick, then please return to the home-page and click upon our fairly hired, minimum wage storefront monkey as he unfurls his banner. You'll be whisked away like a basket of flowers to the marketplace at Etsy.com where you can find any number of art-things from previous and current projects up for sale. I've manage to load but a few so far, but please keep checking back as I'll continue to fill out the infinite shelves of our digital superstore.

And if this wasn't enough (and many could safely argue it is far more than necessary), please also peruse and enjoy a new raft of other, non-monkey themed capitalism and art goodness as we've updated a bunch of new files and stuff to our website at large. Enjoy as you must, and feel free to contact me with any special requests or concerns, be they special or otherwise.

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MoCCA Art Festival 2008!

Once again, let it be known to all who can make it that I will be in attendance for this year's MoCCA Art Festival at the glorious Puck Building on Lafayette Street in lower Manhattan this June 7th and 8th. I'll be once more in my usual booth alongside the illustrious Allen Spiegel (Booth #A55-A56), and we have a visual horn o' plenty to push upon your innocent eyes. To celebrate my Graphic Novel, The Woodland Chronicles at Scholastic/Graphix!, I'll have a great deal of new art to peruse, a giant sized new Woodlands postcard, and a limited edition 18x20 giclee print. In attendance as well will be the first ever peek of the soon to be released hardcover edition of Conan: Born on the Battlefield, collecting the entire run of the story, and featuring both a seventeen page sketchbook section and essay by the awesome Ed Brubaker. There will also be an abundance of work put towards my upcoming children's book, The Pirates Guide to First Grade, alongside the usual deviltry ensued from Freaks of the Heartland, Goosebumps, The Matrix, Sudden Gravity and many others.

Allen will have the newly collected hardcover of Jon J Muth's M, as well as his latest children's picture book, Zen Ties, Barron Storey's Sketchbooks, Kent Williams new monograph, Amalgam, and the last few copies of Phil Hale's double collection of paintings entitled Mockingbirds.

This is one of my all time favorite shows and I heartily recommend your coming out to say hello. You won't want to miss the excess of riches it truly is. More info can be had directly from their website by clicking upon this here link below:

http://www.moccany.com/artfest-main.html

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